Armani And Other Foreign Enterprises Are Seriously Polluted, And Local Governments Relax Control.

Armani, Messi stores, CK, Carrefour, Disney and so on are all world famous brands, some even the top luxury brands.

Five environmental groups, including friends of nature and public environment research center, have found that there are serious environmental pollution problems in textile raw materials suppliers in China.

In response to queries from environmental groups, Armani did not respond to any questions, as did Armani.

There are 18 enterprises.

Take Martha, the largest multinational business retail group in the UK, it is located in a supplier of an industrial area in Shaoxing, Zhejiang. Since 2003, the problem of waste water and waste gas treatment has been frequently complained by local residents.

It was not until May 2010 that the sewage and waste collection device of the enterprise was not built, and the waste gas and wastewater seriously polluted the environment.

Faced with the challenge of environmental protection organizations, Martha stores repeatedly avoided and perfunctory, and even decorated themselves with environmental concepts such as "zero waste" and "carbon neutral".

Such incidents are not the first time that foreign companies, such as foundry factories and suppliers in China, have seriously polluted the environment.

Before, the famous apple was caused by the pollution problem in the Chinese factory, and the brand image was once damaged.

The recurrence of similar incidents poses severe challenges to the investment and environmental supervision of various governments.

Yang Hongshan, deputy director of the public governance and harmonious urban research center of Renmin University of China, commented on this.

Double standards lead to frequent international famous enterprises.

They were also exposed by the environmental protection organizations of the friends of nature and the public environmental research center. They also investigated the serious environmental pollution problems of a total of 49 multinational enterprises or suppliers in China, including Armani.

Moreover, such a big name such as Armani has not yet responded to questions from environmental groups.

Many people can't help wondering why such things are common and happen to some internationally renowned enterprises.

Yang Hongshan: precisely because these enterprises are well-known enterprises, it attracts the attention of the media and the society. In turn, the public has to question these big brands, especially the international brands. In fact, sometimes the doubters themselves have a double standard. That is to say, for some multinational companies, we often measure them by international standards, requiring them to abide by the basic social responsibilities that multinational enterprises should abide by, and for some domestic enterprises, we often take the domestic standards to treat them.

On this issue, my view is that for some of our local enterprises, especially domestic enterprises, they also have some serious problems in such a violation of the public environment. However, due to the social concern for these multinational companies, the exposure of pnational corporations and well-known enterprises is much higher than that of local enterprises, so the dual issue on this issue is much higher.

It is also the reason why we see these famous enterprises being exposed repeatedly.

Local governments pursue political performance and deregulate

The environment relates to the health of every one of us. When Apple was last seen, Apple also ignored it. Until the public opinion storm broke out, apple headquarters finally came to explain the problem.

One of the key issues involved is that when multinational companies encounter similar incidents, they should try to ignore their supervisory responsibilities to the foundries or suppliers.

The reaction of the nineteen enterprises such as Armani is almost the same as last time. So, can the local government of each generation factory or supplier be able to sit idly by in a similar dispute? Is it necessary for the local government to carry out supervision?

In the dilemma, first of all, there is a very high political performance competition in local politics. Although the central government has repeatedly stressed the comprehensive evaluation system of local government performance under the guidance of Scientific Outlook on Development, we know that in all kinds of evaluation indicators, the indicators of economic growth class are the most obvious and the most easily quantified evaluation, and it is easy to carry out horizontal comparison, such as indicators of public service and environmental protection, whether specific indicators can be quantified and how to evaluate. This is very difficult. It is precisely because of this competition that we can see that local governments are very concerned about the rigid indicators such as attracting foreign investment, increasing local GDP growth and financial revenue. Yang Hongshan: in such a process, the local government is actually in a kind of

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How to attract them, in the past, the past practice of local governments was to reduce taxes. Now that the tax system reform is becoming more and more standardized, the tax reduction has been very small. What can be done is land concessions, including deregulation. The occurrence of such environmental pollution is actually very much related to the local government's intention to relax the regulation of the environment and social classes. It is precisely because of deregulation that helps enterprises and subsidize enterprises in disguise.

Does it mean that for many local governments, the contradiction between economic benefits and environmental costs can not be reconciled?

Yang Hongshan: for local governments, it is indeed in such a contradiction, but for such an environment at the cost of the practice, from the central government from the perspective of national governance and from the perspective of the whole society, can not be taken lightly.

At the time of development, we can not strive for a temporary temporary development at the expense of future development. In turn, we can see that some of our environmental protection systems and systems need improvement. Today, environmental protection organizations, especially environmental protection departments, belong to a constituent part of local governments. In the process of carrying out environmental enforcement, many of them have to be controlled by local governments. Therefore, improving the vertical management of environmental law enforcement is conducive to further enhancing the effectiveness of environmental law enforcement.

Civil organizations should be given more room for development.

Nongovernmental environmental protection organizations have made a lot of contributions to the pollution incidents and investigation of pnational enterprises, and strengthen the strength of non-governmental organizations, so that they can supervise and promote the solution of problems. Is that a feasible way?

Yang Hongshan: for non-governmental organizations, in fact, we have seen from the development of the past decade or so, at the critical moment, some environmental organizations have taken the lead in standing out from the angle of public welfare and asked the relevant departments to take actions to deal with these problems. In fact, I think our country should further relax the registration of non-governmental environmental protection organizations and give them greater space and larger platform. These non-governmental environmental protection organizations collectively promote social commonweal for the purpose of public welfare. It is very beneficial for our society as a whole to require enterprises to fulfill their social responsibilities. This is also an important direction that we should encourage in the future development, especially in the development of non-profit organizations.

Environmental organizations such as the friends of nature and the environmental research center of the public said that China is now facing serious water pollution and air pollution. With the new industrial division of the textile industry, a large number of jobs are pferred with garment processing, while pollution remains in China, which is bound to have a great impact on China's environmental belt.

In this regard, the Chinese government needs to strengthen supervision.

At the same time, these international and domestic well-known

It is also necessary to strengthen environmental management of suppliers so as to avoid damage to China's environment and communities by outsourcing production.

Ma Jun, director of the public environment research center, said that law enforcement is not strict, environmental supervision is weak, environmental litigation is difficult, and the price of water and other resources is low.